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A pediatric nurse is educating the client with sickle cell disease and the client's family regarding the genetic implications of the disease. Which information is inappropriate for the nurse to share with the client's family?
A) If both parents have the trait, then with each pregnancy, the risk of having a child with the disease is 50%.
B) The sickle cell gene may have originated to protect against lethal forms of malaria.
C) The disorder is transmitted as an autosomal recessive genetic defect.
D) In African-Americans, sickle cell disease occurs in 1 out of every 500 births.
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Nursing: A Concept-Based Approach to Learning, Volume I

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